Cotton was by far the leading cash crop, but slaves also raised rice, corn, sugarcane, and tobacco. Many plantations raised several different kinds of crops. Besides planting and harvesting ...

The publication, designed to win support for the newly proposed U.S. Constitution, does not deal with slavery, or even agriculture, much less a tobacco plantation. The title page image ...

Several worked on the main campus, while others lived and worked on Nottoway Quarter, the college-owned tobacco plantation. Historian Craig Steven Wilder asserts that during the colonial period, "a ...

It was named after its owner, tobacco tycoon Colonel Augustine ... Most of us picture the plantations we see in the movies, but slavery was also happening right here in Lynchburg, just in a ...

They were not enslavers, but their business and financial success benefitted from slavery as they traded in tobacco grown ... a share of their crop in return for leasing land on tobacco plantations ...

The film recounts the early life of George Washington, highlighting his upbringing on a Virginia tobacco plantation. It ...

Forests were cleared to plant valuable crops such as sugar, coffee, and tobacco ... was working in the fields at the plantations. Even after the end of slavery, the economic opportunities for ...

The port was a major hub for sugar imported from plantations ... from the slave trade. A small group of Glaswegian merchants dominated the rapidly expanding transatlantic tobacco trade.